††††††††††† When I was
in Montreal for the last runs of
the MR-63 subway train, I inadvertently deleted over 100 photos from the first
two days of the trip. I still had most of the photos from the MR-63 trains
themselves though I had to ask others for photos of the vintage ads inside the
train.

††††††††††† Still, I
wasnít happy in loosing the photos. I made a few attempts to recover the
pictures without luck. As a result, I decided to go back to retake the pictures
I lost.

††††††††††† There where
four things I had lost that I would attempt to retake: Train #62 in Montreal,
STMís electric Nova LFS, the commuter train in Saint-Jerome, and a ride on an
STM #22-000 series Nova LFS; the oldest series of buses in service with STM.

††††††††††† My plan was
to go back to Montreal in late
July. I would end up going on the exact same dates as my 2007 Sudbury Trip. My
plan was to ride Train #62 to Montreal
and spend two nights there. Coming back, I would take train #33 to Ottawa
and then connect to train #47 back to Toronto.
The reason I went through Ottawa on
the return was that VIA had that route on a discount when I booked it on a
Tuesday. I would ride VIA train #62 in Business Class as I was seated close to
the front of #62 last time and the Business car is the first coach on the
train. The trip unfolded as follows.

July 30, 2018:

††††††††††† I left home
shortly after 7:00 am. My mom gave me
a ride to Langstaff. I bought a ticket for the next train which was the same
departure I took back in April when Mark and I went to Montreal.
After buying my ticket, I decided to add $10 to my Presto card.

††††††††††† While
waiting for my GO train, I photographed a CN intermodal.

††††††††††† My GO train
came 15 minutes later. I photographed it.

††††††††††† I took a
seat in the cab car. The train departed. Shortly after leaving Langstaff, I
heard the announcement ď10-33 car 4513.Ē

††††††††††† This
announcement didnít seem as serious as we werenít held at Old Cummer or Oriole
stations. We did get to Union a little over 10 minutes
late. I got off and photographed the train.

††††††††††† I then went
and checked in at the Business Class lounge. I found a place to work and worked
on this trip report a bit. I also went online to learn a charter that I was to
attend on August 11th was cancelled.

††††††††††† Boarding
began shortly after 8:50. I went up
and photographed the train before getting on.

††††††††††† I was
seated in LRC Business class coach #3475. I had a backwards facing seat on the
left-hand side of the train. This would be the first time I rode in a rebuilt
LRC Business Class coach! There was a VIA train on the track next to us.

††††††††††† I logged
into the Wi-Fi. The train left on time. I filmed the VIA train on the track
next to us and went online. I was distracted that I missed filming Greenwood
Yard. My ticket was taken.

††††††††††† The train
stopped in Oshawa. Somewhere east
of Oshawa, we overtook a CP freight
on the parallel CP line. The train passed through Port Hope. A westbound VIA
train passed, but I was unable to film it. We stopped at Cobourg a few minutes
later. We soon departed Cobourg.

††††††††††† We passed a
westbound CN freight. As we passed the MemoryJunctionRailwayMuseum, I filmed it.

††††††††††† As we
passed through Belleville non-stop,
we passed a westbound CN intermodal with an ex BC Rail unit trailing.

††††††††††† Another
westbound VIA passed and I was unable to film it. We stopped at Kingston
awhile later. At Kingston, I
photographed D40LF #0833.

††††††††††† A westbound
VIA train pulled in and I filmed it. We then departed Kingston.
East of Kingston, a CN freight passed. I was then served lunch.

††††††††††† We were soon
approaching Brockville where train
#62 would be separated from train #52. I went back through the economy coaches
and photographed the nose of F40 #6446 which would lead #52 after being
separated from #62.

††††††††††† VIA train
#63 passed and I attempted to film it.

††††††††††† The trains
stopped and I watched as they uncoupled the two trains and took some photos.

††††††††††† Train #62
pulled away and rounded a slight curve. I took one more photo of #52.

††††††††††† I then
returned to my seat. A westbound VIA train passed but I was unable to film it.
The train stopped in Cornwall.

††††††††††† The train
crossed into Quebec and we passed
a few EXO stations. We overtook a CP freight with a single AC4400 leading and a
GEVO on the rear. We stopped in Dorval
a few minutes later. We started to leave but then stopped again. However, we
were soon underway.

††††††††††† From the
train, I could see the Exo shops and saw some equipment outside. I caught a
glimpse of an ex GO Transit F59PH. We later passed some pieces of rail
maintenance equipment.

††††††††††† We slowed
down briefly bus soon picked up speed again. We were soon nearing Central
Station. I readied my stuff in preparation to get off.

††††††††††† As we
passed over a canal, I caught a glimpse of some ex STM MR-63s in a park. I knew
there were some in the area of Central station and I hoped to check them out.
Train #62 arrived 20 minutes late. I got off and photographed the train as well
as train #67 awaiting its departure for Toronto.

††††††††††† This would
be the first of my photos to have been successfully retaken. I travelled in
Business Class to be close to the front of the train as thatís where I was on
#62 last time.

††††††††††† I then left
the station and walked to Bonadventure Metro. I once again bought a three-day
pass. I boarded an Azur and rode to the Vendome station. I got off and filmed
the train pulling out.

††††††††††† I then went
upstairs and caught a bus on route #105. I rode three stops and got off. I was
once again staying at an Airbnb. I found the place but no one was home. I
wasnít told where a key was. I eventually found a Wi-Fi signal and was able to
get my hostís phone number and called him. I eventually got it but I wasted at
least 30 minutes.

††††††††††† I then
phoned home and headed out. I caught a bus back to Vendome and boarded an Orange
line train. I rode two stops to Lionel-Groulx and transferred to the Green
line. I boarded a train of MR-73s and rode to Angrignon. I was going to try to
ride an electric Nova LFS bus again. Once I got there, I saw there was no electric
bus at the charging station. I waited around and took some photos including
some in a nearby park right next to the station.

You canít tell it from this photo but Angrignon station is just to the
right out of frame.

††††††††††† I waited a
few buses, but only LFS diesel buses came on route #36. I boarded the Metro and
rode one station to Monk. I waited around and bought a Pepsi from a restaurant
a few blocks away.

††††††††††† I was going
to catch a bus back to Monk then wait around to see if an electric LFS would
show, but I saw an electric LFS coming the other way! I went across the street
and photographed the bus before I got on.

††††††††††† I ended up
riding the bus all the way downtown to Square-Victoria where I took some
interior shots of the bus. I had taken interior shots of the electric LFS I
rode last time, but they were lost in the deletion of all those photos.

††††††††††† I then took
some photos of the bus and filmed it pulling away.

††††††††††† I
photographed the entrance to the Square Victoria station as it looks like itís
out of the Paris Metro.

††††††††††† I then
boarded the Metro and rode to Barri-UQAM. I got off and transferred to the
Green Line. I rode to Radisson station and got off. I was looking for a 22-000
series Nova LFS; STMís oldest series of buses in service and Radisson was a
good place to go. When I got there, I photographed some buses.

††††††††††† I then
photographed an RTL Nova LFS and an STM LFS which turned out to be #22-407.

††††††††††† I boarded
#22-407 and rode to Honore-Beaugard. I got off and photographed the bus.

††††††††††† There were
quite a few #22-000 series Nova LFS buses at Honore-Beaugard. It reminded me of
back in 2007 when Mark and I saw many ETS fishbowls at the West Edmonton Mall.
I took some photos before I boarded #22-239 on route #18.

††††††††††† I rode
#22-218 to Beaubien Metro station. We passed a few more 22-000 series LFS buses
on the way. At one point, we got stuck behind a garbage truck which no doubt
smelled AWFUL!

††††††††††† I got off
at Beaubien and photographed the bus.

††††††††††† I filmed
#22-239 pulling away. I had ridden a 22-000 series LFS back in June but once
again, my photos were deleted.

I then boarded the Metro and rode
to Sauvť station where I transferred to the route #121 bus and rode to Cote-Vertu
where I walked over and had dinner at a nearby Taco Bell.

††††††††††† After
dinner, I walked back to the Metro and rode an Azur back to Vendome station and
filmed the train pulling out.

††††††††††† I then
transferred to route #105 and rode back to where I was staying. I went inside
and logged into the Wi-Fi. I worked on this report before I went out to a
nearby convenience store and got some milk. I returned where I was staying
before I eventually called it a night.

July 31, 2018:

††††††††††† I got up at
8:45 am and got dressed. I left the
apartment and walked over and had breakfast at a nearby Subway restaurant. I
then caught a bus to Vendome and rode a Metro train to Bonadventure. I was
going to attempt to see the MR-63s I saw the day before.

††††††††††† From
Bonadventure, I walked over to the park near the canal to where the subway cars
were. There were a total of four cars; three end cars and one middle car. The
cars are part of an art instillation/cafť and werenít on trucks. I photographed
the cars and the seats which were laid out in the open.

I probably sat in some of those seats on my previous trips to Montreal.

††††††††††† I then
walked back to the Metro and caught an Orange line train
to Jean-Talon. I transferred to the Blue line and rode two stops to Parc
station. I was once again going to ride the commuter train to Saint-Jerome.

††††††††††† This time,
I got to Parc in plenty of time to buy a ticket and not have to scramble. The
train hadnít arrived yet but would board on the opposite platform as I boarded
back in June.

††††††††††† I was
hoping todayís train would have the same equipment as the train I rode back in
June. That train consisted of Exo (formerly AMT)ís newest bilevel coaches
pulled by an ex GO F59PH. As it turned out, the train did have the same type of
equipment as the train I rode in June. I filmed the train pulling in and
photographed the train.

††††††††††† The train
had pulled on the opposite platform where it discharged its passengers. I then
pulled ahead. I filmed it pulling out.

††††††††††† The train
pulled to a junction south of the station and switched tracks. It then pulled
back into the station. I photographed the train as it pulled in.

††††††††††† I took a
seat in the cab car. The train left a minute late. At Sainte Rose, I
photographed STL First Generation Nova #0013.

††††††††††† I once
again rode all the way to Saint Jerome.
No one else sat in the upper level of the car I was in. At Saint
Jerome, I got off and photographed the train.

††††††††††† With this,
I had pretty much retaken all the photos I had lost back in June. If the train
had different coaches/locomotives, I would have gone by Montreal West station
and waited to see if a train would come by that matched what I had ridden, but
fortunately, I was able to get on the same type of coaches with an ex GO
Transit F59PH.

††††††††††† I got back
on the train to head back to Montreal.
I helped a few people get on by showing them a yellow button next to the doors.
Ironic that someone from Toronto
knew more than locals!

††††††††††† I then took
a seat in the cab car. There was one other person on the upper level. The train
departed on time.

††††††††††† I rode all
the way back to Parc instead of getting off one station early to look for a new
money belt after the zipper broke back in June. (For the record, I got the
money belt repaired but I brought the one I purchased with me just in case the
zipper broke again.

††††††††††† Once back
at Parc, I got off and photographed the train.

††††††††††† I filmed
the train pulling out heading for the junction then filmed it pulling in. I
took two more photos

††††††††††† I then
walked to a nearby McDonaldís for lunch. After lunch, I got back on the Metro
and rode to Jean-Talon. This would be the only time I would ride the Blue line
on this trip.

††††††††††† From
Jean-Talon, I rode the Orange line south to Barri-UQAM.
I rode the Yellow Line to Longueuil Universie-de-Sheerbrooke station which was
the only Metro station I never visited on my last trip. I got off and
photographed the train.

††††††††††† I filmed
the train pulling into the tail track. I left the Metro and looked around. I
eventually got back on the Metro and rode back to Barri-UQAM where I got off
and photographed the train.

††††††††††† I
transferred to the Green line and rode to Angrignon. I decided I was going to
try to ride an electric LFS from Angrignon just because I rode one from there
back in June. I photographed a few posters for the electric buses.

††††††††††† I decided
to wait until 5:30 to see if an
electric bus would come as the bus I rode yesterday left Angrignon at 5:30. I had gotten there before 4:30 and I saw a diesel LFS on route #36. I
walked by AngrignonPark.

††††††††††† The 5:00 departure was a Hybrid LFS. I didnít get
on, but I photographed it.

††††††††††† I waited
until a few minutes before 5:30 when
STM #36-902; the electric LFS I rode the day before came. I filmed the bus
pulling up to the charging station and the pantograph descended to charge the
busís batteries. I took some photos.

††††††††††† The driver
asked why I was taking pictures. I gave him an honest answer. He asked if I was
done. I told him I planned to ride the bus to Monk. He didnít say anything.

††††††††††† When the
bus finished charging (it takes about 5 minutes), I filmed it pulling up to the
stop. I got on and sat down. The bus departed a few minutes later.

††††††††††† Like in
June, I rode to Monk Metro station. I got off and photographed the bus.

††††††††††† I then
filmed the bus pulling away and took one more photo.

††††††††††† I the
boarded the Metro and rode to Lionel-Groulx. I got off and filmed the train
pulling away.

††††††††††† I saw a
train of MR-73s on the Green line heading towards Angrignon. I saw some cars
that were wrapped. I had photographed those cars back in June but again I lost
the pictures. So I photographed the train.

††††††††††† I then
boarded an Azur on the Orange line and rode to Namur.
I got off and photographed the train.

††††††††††† I filmed
the train pulling out. I then left the station and stopped at Wal-Mart. After,
I walked to Gibeau Orange Julep and had dinner. I had to have some more of
their orange juice.

††††††††††† After
dinner, I stopped at a gas station and bought some cereal for tomorrow morning.
I then caught a Nova LFS on route #17 and rode to close to where I was staying
and then walked the rest of the way back to the apartment. I worked on this
report some more and set the alarm on my phone for 6:35. I called it a night.